University of Côte d'Azur. Photo: Antonio Zugaldia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_de_Nice.jpg)
University of Côte d'Azur. Photo: Antonio Zugaldia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_de_Nice.jpg)
Sophie Loschetter was born in 1955 in Cannes, a city on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. Cannes is internationally known for its annual film festival, which has been held since 1946 and draws the international film industry to the French Riviera.
Her education took her from the Riviera to Paris. She studied first in Nice, the principal city of the Côte d'Azur, before completing her legal studies in the capital.
She studied at the University of Nice, which was created in 1965. Its law faculty was first called the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences and later extended its activities to political science and management.
Her further legal education was at Paris-Sorbonne. The Sorbonne is the historic centre of the medieval University of Paris, and after the French university system was reorganised following 1968, its name passed to successor institutions in the capital.
She completed a maîtrise in private law in 1979. The maîtrise was a postgraduate degree in the French licence-maîtrise system, awarded after the three-year licence, and it formed the standard academic qualification for those entering the legal profession in France.
Sophie Loschetter's documented professional role is that of partner at Frere Cholmeley. The firm traced its origins to a London practice in the eighteenth century; by the 1990s it had built an international presence, with its Paris office among its foreign operations.
In 1998 Frere Cholmeley Bischoff, the London firm, was absorbed in part by Eversheds, and Eversheds took on the bulk of the London office together with the firm's Paris operations. The Paris office later traded as Eversheds Frère Cholmeley, a name that reflects this integration into the wider Eversheds network.
As a partner, she belonged to the senior ownership and management tier of the firm, in a French legal profession where avocats practise as members of firms and their partners share responsibility for the practice's direction and clients.
